By Will McGuirk
So much to unpack in Steve Wilson’s new video, but you may have to sign up for a course on McLuhan to fully get it - however the artist express the next now in this now so here we are now, you ask to be entertained but entertain this - how many do you know and ask yourself why you know. The Wilson track is from the new album, ‘The Future Bites” so there’s a clue.
“‘SELF’ is about our new age of narcissism and self-obsession, one in which a human race that used to look out with curiosity at the world and the stars now spends much of its time gazing at a little screen to see themselves reflected back in the mirror of social media. In that sense everyone now can take part in the notion of celebrity, and has the potential to share their life with an invisible mass of people they will never meet. The video take things further by exploring the idea that anyone can now project a version or ‘self’ that has no bearing on reality, and by using only well known faces the deception is made transparent.” - Steven Wilson
“Hall & Oates meet Joan Didion in a big box parking lot." - Lydia Hol
“I think we all can agree 2020 was a real drag. But here we are in 2021. “Wake up, Brother/Sister/Change the world” Let’s put on our shoes and kick the fu**ing door open to tomorrow. Happy NY!” - Andrew Gabbard